Full-scale Next.js rebuild for a digital media publisher serving 2.4M monthly users. Migrated from a crumbling WordPress site to a blazing-fast headless architecture with a 94 Lighthouse score, 198ms load times, and a CMS the content team actually loves.
Meridian Media, a digital publisher based in New York, NY, was running their entire operation on an aging WordPress installation that had become a liability. Their Lighthouse score sat at a dismal 34, pages took 3.8 seconds to load, and the bounce rate had climbed to 68%. Every time their editorial team ran a major campaign, the site would crash under the traffic spike — costing them ad revenue and credibility.
Their content team dreaded using the CMS. Publishing a single article took 45 minutes of wrestling with plugins, broken previews, and sluggish saves. The Head of Digital told us: "We're a media company that's embarrassed by our own website."
We executed a full-scale migration from WordPress to Next.js with a headless Sanity CMS, Incremental Static Regeneration for instant page loads, edge deployment on Vercel with Cloudflare CDN, and a custom real-time analytics dashboard. The content team got a visual editor with live previews, scheduled publishing, and a 2-minute publish workflow. The engineering side got TypeScript, Prisma ORM, Redis caching, and a PostgreSQL backend built for scale.
ISR with edge caching delivering sub-200ms load times globally. Automatic CDN distribution across 300+ Vercel edge nodes.
Sanity headless CMS with visual editor, real-time preview, scheduled publishing, and drag-and-drop content blocks for the editorial team.
Custom analytics dashboard tracking user behavior, content performance, conversion funnels, and Core Web Vitals in real-time.
Pixel-perfect responsive layouts across all devices with PWA capabilities, offline reading mode, and adaptive image loading.
Automated meta tags, JSON-LD structured data, dynamic XML sitemaps, and Core Web Vitals optimization driving organic traffic growth.
WCAG 2.1 AA compliance with full screen reader support, keyboard navigation, focus management, and color contrast validation.
Modern web infrastructure deployed on Vercel's edge network with Cloudflare for global CDN and DDoS protection.
Our old WordPress site was honestly embarrassing for a media company our size. 3.8 second load times, constant crashes during our biggest campaigns, and our content team dreaded using the CMS. Rivan.ai migrated everything to Next.js and the difference was night and day — literally on launch day we hit a 94 Lighthouse score. Our content team can now publish in 2 minutes instead of 45. We handled a viral article with 400K concurrent users without a blip. My only regret is not doing this sooner.
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